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A young fan in the crowd at Riviera tried to warn media and officials that Tiger Woods was soon to start walking through a busy crowd after finishing his second round Friday at the Genesis Invitational. Good point, kid. But the question is, at one over par and right on the projected 36-hole cut line,

9:30 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti LOS ANGELES — After dazzling the crowd at Riviera Country Club on Thursday with three straight birdies in his final three holes to shoot 2-under

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — If it wasn’t abundantly clear, Max Homa is comfortable playing golf in California. Specifically, in Southern California. More specifically, at the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. The 2021 champion, Homa, who has recorded three straight top-10s at the Tiger Woods-hosted event, took the outright lead at 10-under par after round

10:02 PM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — Max Homa in the lead at his hometown PGA Tour event used to give him chills. Now he’s playing so well it almost feels normal. Homa, a winner last month down the coast at Torrey Pines, ran off three birdies around the turn at Riviera Country

Following a tee shot late in the day, cameras caught Woods slipping Thomas a tampon in an apparent nod to Woods outdriving the reigning PGA champion. Photos and videos of Woods’ exchange went viral, with responses spanning the emotional spectrum. Some saw the gesture as an innocuous prank: Conversely, others believed the exchange was sophomoric

1:34 PM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — John Paramor, the mustachioed European tour rules official whose career spanned six decades, has died after a cancer diagnosis. He was 67. The European tour confirmed the death of Paramor, who retired in 2020 as chief referee. He had officiated at dozens of major championships over

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Max Homa called his thrilling hole-out from a greenside bunker at Riviera Country Club’s par-4 10th the “coolest way” he’s ever started a round of golf. His overall start to the tournament was pretty cool, too. A seven-under 64 catapulted one of the PGA Tour’s hottest players to the top of

Feb 15, 2023 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It’s still weird for Joel Dahmen to say he’s on a Netflix series. He likes to think he’s a normal guy, and that he and his wife, Lona, are just a normal couple with a normal family. By some measure, they may be. They do have a 3-week-old son,

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — The “look” was absolutely priceless. Anybody who’s ever topped a buddy’s birdie with their own to win a buck or two would recognize the pure joy in the slightest of smiles. That was the silent exchange that took place between Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas on the 18th green Thursday at

9:15 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — The walk to the Riviera Country Club clubhouse from the 18th green is a steep one. But any pain Tiger Woods might have felt in his right ankle seemed soothed by the smile that spread across his face as the crowd that filled the hole’s surrounding grass

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2:48 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods played 16 holes and walked 18 in the Genesis Invitational Pro-Am Wednesday morning in his first public round of golf since last December’s PNC Championship. Woods, who will play with Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy in the first two rounds of the tournament starting Thursday,

5:14 PM ET LOS ANGELES — As the PGA Tour continues to rebuild itself during its ongoing battle with the LIV Golf League for the best players in the world, Rory McIlroy says he believes the tour should look at another professional sports league, the NBA, as a model for growth. McIlroy, speaking to reporters

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Rory McIlroy hesitated to use the word. In fact, he said he “hated” it, because he no doubt understands the connotations it carries. Anytime you use the word “product” when it comes to speaking about sports, it feels as if you could be selling beers or cars rather than acknowledging the

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — In his prime, Tiger Woods was expected to win at any course he played on the PGA Tour, particularly any course he’d played more than once. En route to claiming a record-tying 82 tour titles, there were a handful of venues—notably Bay Hill, Firestone and Torrey Pines—where Woods won on several

8:00 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods will tee it up at the Genesis Invitational on Thursday (3:04 p.m. ET, ESPN+) in his first official PGA Tour

Weekends on the LPGA Tour just got a little smaller. On Wednesday, the tour announced a rule change to the cutline that’s being put in place at full-field events, with the top 65 players and ties now advancing. Previously, it was top 70 and ties. The smaller cuts will begin at the LPGA Drive-On Championship

12:51 PM ET Mito Pereira, who last year squandered a chance to become the first man from Chile to win a major championship and the first PGA Tour rookie to win one in 11 years, has officially joined the LIV Golf League. Pereira, 27, and Sebastian Munoz, another PGA Tour member, were among four players

Episode Title: “Don’t Get Bitter, Get Better” Tagline: Tony Finau and Collin Morikawa take different approaches to the game heading into The Masters Tournament and the Open Championship Pick your favorite narrative here: Choice A: Tony Finau is a good-hearted family man from humble origins who never gives up despite initial struggles, while Collin Morikawa

3:47 PM ET PALISADES, Calif. — Tiger Woods said he’s still having problems with his right ankle and dealing with plantar fasciitis in his right foot but insists he wouldn’t be playing in this week’s Genesis Invitational if he didn’t think he could contend or even win. Woods, 47, will be making his first start

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — A cyclone ravaging New Zealand has prompted Adam Scott to find a backup caddie for Wednesday’s pro-am at the Genesis Invitational, with his usual bagman, Steve Williams, scrambling to get a flight out of his home in Auckland in time for Thursday’s first round at Riviera Country Club. Government officials in

4:30 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods walked back into the epicenter of the golf world Tuesday, just days after he announced he would be playing in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. He discussed many topics, including his health, the way he approaches playing competitive golf at this stage of

Four months ago, Jon Trasamar was standing on the tee at the first stage of Korn Ferry Tour Q school in Arizona. The 32-year-old Minnesota native was coming off yet another solid season on the mini-tours and feeling good about his chances of advancing. The scars on his knee and shoulder reminded him of the

7:00 AM ET Devin Gordon STREAKING IS WRONG — let’s be clear about that up front. It’s boorish, infantile, and it always ends badly. That being said, sometimes a legend comes along who pulls off a marathon streak so improbable, so filled with performative flourishes and so in keeping with the whole sloshy drunken gestalt

LPGA star Anna Nordqvist revealed she has ended her endorsement deal with Aramco—Saudi Arabia’s state-run petroleum company and a major financial supporter of women’s golf—due to ongoing backlash for the partnership. In an interview with Swedish news agency TT, the three-time major winner did not express second thoughts regarding the moral and ethical issues of

12:35 PM ET The 2023 PGA Tour continues with the Genesis Invitational, which begins Thursday. The event will take place at the Riviera Country Club, a par-71 course in Pacific Palisades, California. Because the Genesis Invitational is an elevated event, the purse is $20 million. It’s the second consecutive elevated golf tournament on the PGA

When Tiger Woods returns to competitive golf this week at the Genesis Invitational, his first official PGA Tour event since the Open Championship in July, he’ll be getting reacquainted with a golf course that, paradoxically, is one he deeply cherishes but which chafes him like no other venue on Earth. Winner of a record-tying 82

6:06 PM ET Former world No. 1 Stacy Lewis has been named U.S. captain for the 2024 Solheim Cup in Gainesville, Virginia, the LPGA announced Monday. Lewis is already on track to captain the 2023 U.S. team that will face Europe at the Sept. 22-24 Solheim Cup at Finca Cortesin in Andalucia, Spain. “This is

For a second consecutive week, golf fans will be treated to a stacked field featuring three guys battling for the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking. But Tiger Woods’ return to competition adds a fun world ranking wrinkle as well. The 15-time major champ will play in an official PGA Tour event for

12:00 PM ET Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy entered the year ranked No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking. You could certainly argue that over the past few weeks, Spain’s Jon Rahm was performing like the best player in the world. On Sunday, Scottie Scheffler reminded everyone in the sport who was ranked No. 1